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    <dc:date>2021-03-20T14:45:26+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When the shadow library Sci-hub was founded in 2011, it was meant to remove “barriers in the way of science”, in response to the high cost of research papers behind paywalls. Since then, its founder Kazakhstani programmer Alexandra Elbakyan often became a target of lawsuits for copyright infringement. The platform currently hosts more than 85 million scientific papers. This conversation previously appeared in a shorter version on Netzpolitik.org. 

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    <title>From symbiont to parasite: the evolution of for-profit science publishing | Molecular Biology of the Cell</title>
    <dc:date>2019-11-03T20:50:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/mbc.E19-03-0147</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Two 17th century institutions—learned societies and scientific journals—transformed science in ways that still dominate our professional lives today. Learned societies like the American Society for Cell Biology remain relevant because they provide forums for sharing results, discussing the practice of science, and projecting our voices to the public and the policy makers. Scientific journals still disseminate our work, but in the Internet-connected world of the 21st century, this is no longer their critical function. Journals remain relevant almost entirely because they provide a playing field for scientific and professional competition: to claim credit for a discovery, we publish it in a peer-reviewed journal; to get a job in academia or money to run a lab, we present these published papers to universities and funding agencies. Publishing is so embedded in the practice of science that whoever controls the journals controls access to the entire profession. We must reform our methods for evaluating the contributions of younger scientists and deflate the power of a small number of "elite" journals. More generally, given the recent failure of research institutions around the world to strike satisfactory deals with publishing giant Elsevier, the time has come to examine the motives and methods of those to whom we have entrusted the keys to the kingdom of science.

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    <title>Social media automation &amp; information warfare by the Venezuelan opposition</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A critical look at some of the methods used by the right-wing Venezuelan opposition against the Maduro government and supporters of Chavismo.
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    <title>San Francisco; or, How to Destroy a City | Public Books</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-01T10:14:07+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[These titles, while focusing on the Bay, offer lessons to New York, DC, Toronto, and the countless other cities around the globe hoping to spur growth and economic development by hosting and ingesting tech—by fostering the growth of technology companies, boosting STEM education, and integrating new sensors and screens into their streetscapes and city halls. For years, other municipalities, fashioning themselves as “the Silicon Valley of [elsewhere],” have sought to reverse-engineer the Bay’s blueprint for success. As we’ll see, that blueprint, drafted to optimize the habits and habitats of a privileged few, commonly elides the material needs of marginalized populations and fragile ecosystems. It prioritizes efficiency and growth over the maintenance of community and the messiness of public life. Yet perhaps we can still redraw those plans, modeling cities that aren’t only made by powerbrokers, and that thrive when they prioritize the stewardship of civic resources over the relentless pursuit of innovation and growth.
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Agile is not a sprint, a race, or a marathon, it’s a game of snakes and ladders. You can get off, go back to the start or go back a phase or two if you need to. You win when all your user needs are met, but as user needs can change over time, you have to keep your eye on the board, and you only really stop playing once you decommission your Product or Service! 

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    <title>The End of the Line • Commune</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The practice of mapping infrastructure in order to disrupt it has spread throughout the ecological activist milieu. On the other side of the Detroit River a leg of the Enbridge pipeline system called Line 9 has been disabled multiple times, for example. Pump stations are located above ground along the route of the pipeline at regular intervals, and can be disabled by simply turning a wheel. This “valve-turning” tactic has since been repeated elsewhere, as information about pipeline resistance gets disseminated.

While the fossil fuel infrastructure in its planetary girth is as impossible to grasp as the cataclysmic enormity of climate change, a single pipeline or even a network of pipelines is comprehensible: it is a long arrow pointing from departure to destination. Not only do pipelines make the global flows of capital legible, they render them tractable, connecting struggles waged thousands of miles apart. There are approximately seventy-two thousand miles of crude oil pipe in the US. These pipelines establish a material link, and a basis for real solidarity between disparate groups, connecting a blockade in Michigan to the struggle of indigenous people in Ontario, connecting black and Latinx Detroiters fighting against a refinery to resistance against the Athabasca oil sands thousands of miles away. These oil-based networks are both the source of our misery and the basis of our hope that we might transcend it.

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<dc:subject>via:twitter infrastructure protest collective-action open-access intelligence-gathering corporatism activism</dc:subject>
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    <title>Small Technology – Aral Balkan</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-06T11:50:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://ar.al/2019/03/04/small-technology/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[These criteria mean that Small Tech:

Is owned and controlled by individuals, not corporations or governments.

Respects, protects, and reinforces the integrity of personhood, human rights, social justice, and democracy in the digital and networked age.

Encourages hitherto impractical non-hierarchial political organisation and agency at scale.

Nurtures a healthy commons.

Is sustainable.

Will one day be funded from the commons, for the common good.

Will never make anyone a billion dollars.

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    <title>SocArXiv Papers | Scaling Down Inequality: Rating Scales, Gender Bias, and the Architecture of Evaluation</title>
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    <link>https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/j2tw9/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Quantitative performance ratings are ubiquitous in modern organizations—from businesses to universities—yet there is substantial evidence of bias against women in such ratings. This study examines how gender inequalities in evaluations depend on the design of the tools used to judge merit. Exploiting a quasi-natural experiment at a large North American university, we found that the number of scale points used in faculty teaching evaluations—whether instructors were rated on a scale of 6 versus a scale of 10—significantly affected the size of the gender gap in evaluations. A survey experiment, which presented all participants with an identical lecture transcript but randomly varied instructor gender and the number of scale points, replicated this finding and suggested that the number of scale points affects the extent to which gender stereotypes of brilliance are expressed in quantitative ratings. These results highlight how seemingly minor technical aspects of performance ratings can have a major effect on the evaluation of men and women. Our findings thus contribute to a growing body of work on organizational practices that reduce workplace inequalities and the sociological literature on how rating systems—rather than being neutral instruments—shape the distribution of rewards in organizations.

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    <title>Personality, Incorporated: Psychological Capital in American Management, 1960-1995 | TSpace Repository</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-22T23:03:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/92089</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Personality, Incorporated traces the history of personality testing in American corporate management from 1960 to 1995. Through three case studies, this dissertation takes up the twinned history of psychological techniques, as deployed by a cadre of “consulting psychologists,” and the psychological capacities conjured by these techniques. Personality, Incorporated make two core arguments. First, it argues that personality tests aimed to incite and channel employees’ psychological capacities as forms of economic value. Psychological tests did not simply measure static traits, but they also actively elicited and mobilized affects, subjectivities, and differences, that they then harnessed for corporate value production. Second, this dissertation argues that late twentieth-century corporations were not just sites for the application and circulation of psychological knowledge, but they also served as important experimental laboratories for investigating human’s interpersonal, emotional, and cognitive capacities. A core contribution of this dissertation is to identify, investigate, and interrogate the specific form of value mobilized at this intersection of personality tests and management practices: “psychological capital. As an analytic category, psychological capital names how human beings’ psychological capacities are enlisted into circuits of economic value, with the aid of psychological techniques that can measure and incite these capacities. Psychological capital circulates as an intangible yet nonetheless measurable form of capital that was made visible, measurable, and valuable through psychological techniques of personality testing and training amidst economic, social, and cultural changes of the knowledge economy. This dissertation offers a new way to think about psychological tests: as tools designed to mobilize and channel psychological capacities, to elicit and cultivate the very characteristics that they purported to measure. In weaving together histories of psychology, science and corporate capitalism with critical scholarship on affect and value, this dissertation excavates how psychological tests have become corporate techniques that shape contemporary selfhood.
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<item rdf:about="https://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-mind-of-government.html">
    <title>Understanding Society: The mind of government</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-28T20:31:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-mind-of-government.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ideally we would like to imagine a process of government decision-making that proceeds along these lines: careful gathering and assessment of the best available scientific evidence about an issue through expert specialist panels and sections; careful analysis of the consequences of available policy choices measured against a clear understanding of goals and priorities of the government; and selection of a policy or action that is best, all things considered, for forwarding the public interest and minimizing public harms. Unfortunately, as the experience of government policies concerning climate change in both the Bush administration and the Trump administration illustrates, ideology and private interest distort every phase of this idealized process.
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<item rdf:about="http://bostonreview.net/race/caitlin-c-rosenthal-how-slavery-inspired-modern-business-management#.XDTGfUvr4w0.facebook">
    <title>How Slavery Inspired Modern Business Management | Boston Review</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Of course, the ticking of a stopwatch is wildly different from the lash of the whip—or a whip and a watch used in tandem, as was the case on some plantations. But there is nonetheless something revealing and deeply troubling about the analogy, particularly because proponents of scientific management sometimes used the language of slavery as well—and not to condemn the system but to praise it. One associate of Taylor’s, Scudder Klyce, argued that scientific management was simply a system of “Cooperation or democracy,” but Klyce’s definition of democracy was decidedly undemocratic: he describes it as a system that “consists of the able person’s taking the lead in giving ‘orders’ in the cases where he is of superior ability, and the others’ submitting: it is the relationship of master and slave, regardless of how otherwise it may be named.” From the manager’s perspective, control was the essential characteristic of scientific management. The relations of control could change over time: “At any time a lathe hand may be able to show the superintendent a better way.” But from the perspective of workers, fleeting reversals offered little benefit. When they showed the superintendent a better way, they gave up their own power. They rendered themselves replaceable.
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<item rdf:about="https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/12/25/the-language-of-neoliberal-education/">
    <title>The Language of Neoliberal Education</title>
    <dc:date>2018-12-29T12:55:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/12/25/the-language-of-neoliberal-education/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The culture of manufactured illiteracy is also reproduced through a media apparatus that trades in illusions and the spectacle of violence. Under these circumstances, illiteracy becomes the norm and education becomes central to a version of neoliberal zombie politics that functions largely to remove democratic values, social relations, and compassion from the ideology, policies and commanding institutions that now control American society. In the age of manufactured illiteracy, there is more at work than simply an absence of learning, ideas or knowledge. Nor can the reign of manufactured illiteracy be solely attributed to the rise of the new social media, a culture of immediacy, and a society that thrives on instant gratification. On the contrary, manufactured illiteracy is political and educational project central to a right-wing corporatist ideology and set of policies that work aggressively to depoliticize people and make them complicitous with the neoliberal and racist political and economic forces that impose misery and suffering upon their lives. There is more at work here than what Ariel Dorfman calls a “felonious stupidity,” there is also the workings of a deeply malicious form of 21stcentury neoliberal fascism and a culture of cruelty in which language is forced into the service of violence while waging a relentless attack on the ethical imagination and the notion of the common good. In the current historical moment illiteracy and ignorance offer the pretense of a community in doing so has undermined the importance of civic literacy both in higher education and the larger society.

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<item rdf:about="https://blog.dshr.org/2018/01/it-isnt-about-technology.html?m=1">
    <title>DSHR's Blog: It Isn't About The Technology</title>
    <dc:date>2018-12-09T12:33:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://blog.dshr.org/2018/01/it-isnt-about-technology.html?m=1</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In other words, for searches that are profitable, Google has moved all the results it thinks are relevant off the first page and replaced them with results that people have paid to put there. Which is pretty much the definition of "evil" in the famous "don't be evil" slogan notoriously dropped in 2015. I'm pretty sure that no-one at executive level in Google thought that building a paid-search engine was a good idea, but the internal logic of the "slow AI" they built forced them into doing just that.
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<item rdf:about="https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2018/09/we_know_where_you_should_live.html">
    <title>net.wars: We know where you should live</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-20T11:53:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2018/09/we_know_where_you_should_live.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[John Hancock doesn't mention it, but there are some obvious caveats about these figures. First of all, the program began in 2015. How does the company have data showing its users live so much longer? Doesn't that suggest that these users were living longer *before* they adopted the program? Which leads to the second point: the segment of the population that has wearable fitness trackers and smartphones tends to be more affluent (which tends to favor better health already) and more focused on their health to begin with (ditto). I can see why an insurance company would like me to "engage with" its program twice a day, but I can't see why I would want to. Insurance companies are not my *friends*.

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<item rdf:about="https://www.alfiekohn.org/blogs/regressive/">
    <title>Progressive Labels for Regressive Practices - Alfie Kohn</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-18T11:00:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.alfiekohn.org/blogs/regressive/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[You see the pattern here. We need to ask what kids are being given to do, and to what end, and within what broader model of learning, and as decided by whom. If we allow ourselves to be distracted from those questions, then even labels with a proud progressive history can be co-opted to the point that they no longer provide reassurance about the practice to which the label refers.

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<item rdf:about="https://www.chronicle.com/article/There-Is-No-Case-for-the/242724/">
    <title>There Is No Case for the Humanities - The Chronicle of Higher Education</title>
    <dc:date>2018-03-10T11:39:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.chronicle.com/article/There-Is-No-Case-for-the/242724/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[But this is no counsel of despair. In 1773, Samuel Johnson visited the University of St. Andrews on his journey to the Western Isles of Scotland. St. Andrews is an ancient institution, one of the 25 or so oldest universities in the world, and yet 350 years in, it had evidently fallen on hard times. Fewer than 100 students remained, and one of its old colleges had been dissolved. "To see it pining in decay and struggling for life," Johnson noted, "fills the mind with mournful images and ineffectual wishes." He was under no illusion as to where the blame lay: "It is surely not without just reproach, that a nation, of which the commerce is hourly extending, and the wealth encreasing ... while its merchants or its nobles are raising palaces, suffers its universities to moulder into dust."

And yet St. Andrews survived. Today it has roughly 10,000 students and is highly regarded, particularly in the humanities.

The humanities and the university do need defenders, and the way to defend the humanities is to practice them. Vast expanses of humanistic inquiry are still in need of scholars and scholarship. Whole fields remain untilled. We do not need to spend our time justifying our existence. All we need to do is put our hand to the plow. Scholarship has built institutions before and will do so again. Universities have declined and come to flourish once more. The humanities, which predate the university and may well survive it, will endure — even if there is no case to defend them.

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<item rdf:about="http://www.richard-hall.org/2017/11/10/in-against-and-beyond-the-co-operative-university/">
    <title>In, against and beyond the Co-operative University | Richard Hall's Space</title>
    <dc:date>2017-11-14T12:24:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.richard-hall.org/2017/11/10/in-against-and-beyond-the-co-operative-university/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In part my questioning is situated against my own weltschmerz, in particular in the face of ongoing, secular capitalist crisis with its attendant punishing and disciplinary austerity. However, my questioning extends the nature of this socio-economic crisis, which is destroying the lives/futures of millions of people, into the terrain of socio-environmental crisis. I also wonder why we are building a model in this way that is deliberately connected to a hegemonic system of oppression, and which is rooted in contradictions and tensions around the ongoing nature of work and the availability of employment that is increasingly predicted to be marginalised/made redundant by technology in so many sectors. So in building for an unstable world that is increasingly governed by debt as a moment of social discipline, I found myself asking why are we building in this way for a capitalist world that is collapsing? Is building an alternative form of sociability impossible? I found myself questioning how to enact Rosa Luxemburg’s idea (on socialism or barbarism) that ’to push ahead to the victory of socialism we need a strong, activist, educated proletariat, and masses whose power lies in intellectual culture as well as numbers.’

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<item rdf:about="https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/11/09/ceos-dont-steer/">
    <title>CEOs Don’t Steer</title>
    <dc:date>2017-11-14T12:03:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/11/09/ceos-dont-steer/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is why CEOs are different from other kinds of leaders. Leaders in other societal roles are typically not the stewards of any source of promethean energy. Instead, they are involved with directing and routing second-order effects that drain it. So they can afford to steer and be clever about it. They are zero-sum carve-the-pie leaders (which is important too, just not the point of this post).

But CEOs don’t steer.

What is good for countries, militaries, and art movements is not good for companies (and conversely, when the Trumps, Modis, and Xi Jinpengs bring CEO-like orientation-locking tendencies to inclusive governance jobs that require non-trivial steering, the results are usually not pretty).

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    <title>The GOP's Evolution into a True Fascist, White Nationalist Party Is Inevitable :: Politics :: Features :: Republicanism :: Paste</title>
    <dc:date>2017-10-08T12:50:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/09/the-gops-evolution-into-a-true-fascist-white-natio.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Led by Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, the party made the cynical decision to oppose Obama’s entire agenda in the midst of a harrowing and dislocating recession. They embraced groups like Americans for Prosperity, backed by those cardboard-cutout billionaire villains, the Koch Brothers, which in turn fomented the Tea Party movement. Supposedly these groups were about tax and spending issues and had no racial agenda—or at least that’s what the National Review would claim every time crowds showed up with overtly racist signs. The fearsome animus of the 2008 election, uncorked by Sarah Palin’s embarrassing tenure as John McCain’s running mate, forewarned of a malevolent turn in Republican messaging: Obama was alien, a foreigner, a radical, a socialist, a Muslim—whatever fit in the moment. As a sideshow, a dipshit reality show host injected the “birther” conspiracy theory with fresh life and media attention every time it threatened to vanish into the dumber corners of the internet.

The Republicans rode this backlash to a stunning victory in 2010. White Americans saw in Obama the very real changing demographic nature of the country. Each presidential election cycle, the potential non-white electorate grows by roughly 2%. The Census Bureau estimates that the minorities will become 56% of the population by 2060. Minorities will become the nation’s majority. Given this, perhaps a resurgence of white identity politics was inevitable, but the way it manifested in the halls of power could have been averted.

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<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:02ec401d3233/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.andrewdavidson.com/gibberish/?companyname=Floopr">
    <title>Corporate Gibberish Generator on AndrewDavidson.com</title>
    <dc:date>2017-10-05T10:44:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.andrewdavidson.com/gibberish/?companyname=Floopr</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Corporate Gibberish Generator™ by Andrew Davidson. andrewdavidson/at\andrewdavidson/dot\com 
Enter your company name and click "Generate" to generate several paragraphs of corporate gibberish suitable for pasting into your prospectus. 
(The gibberish is geared more toward Internet and technology companies.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>branding corporatism humor algorithms natural-language-processing generative-art</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:ea3bac96cd08/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:humor"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:algorithms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:natural-language-processing"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://vimeo.com/234305186">
    <title>Foreplay keynote - Aral Balkan on Vimeo</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-25T12:04:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://vimeo.com/234305186</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Foreplay keynote - Aral Balkan]]></description>
<dc:subject>security corporatism openness public-policy video keynote</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a1822ee229f1/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:openness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:public-policy"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://hookandeye.ca/2017/09/21/why-cant-we-be-our-whole-selves-as-academics/">
    <title>Why Can’t We Be Our Whole Selves as Academics? – Hook</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-23T13:23:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://hookandeye.ca/2017/09/21/why-cant-we-be-our-whole-selves-as-academics/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Why can’t we have that as academics? It’s a genuine question: what does an academic culture that requires us to elide our personal lives, to treat our bodies as containers for our brains (even with broken feet), to elevate intellect over affect, do that’s useful to the academy? Does it make academic work appear more legitimate–and if so, to whom? Does it gatekeep, for the benefit of those in power, the people who cannot wholly divorce their bodily/personal/affective lives from their work? Does it make stressful and onerous academic and administrative work seem simpler, even if it isn’t? Does it delegitimate certain kinds of labour, especially emotional, so that labour doesn’t have to be acknowledged or compensated?]]></description>
<dc:subject>the-docile-body-of-the-author corporatism academic-culture worklife cultural-assumptions via:twitter</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:d4d43857f002/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/09/14452/#sthash.777hhyeF.uxfs">
    <title>The Social Injustice Done to Adjunct Faculty: A Call to Arms | Public Discourse</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-19T12:03:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/09/14452/#sthash.777hhyeF.uxfs</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It’s September, and many of America’s teens are headed back to college. This means that not a few parents will be left with that empty feeling in the pit of their stomach—not only because their beloved children are leaving the nest but because the bills to pay for their children's new college homes are coming due. According to the College Board, tuition, fees, room and board in private four-year universities last year averaged $42,419. That was up $1,464 from the previous year. Was your pay raise that high? Parents might be left wondering where all the money goes. Are all these faculty members getting rich?

In an earlier Public Discourse essay, I showed that tuition at American colleges and universities has been rising six times faster than inflation and several times faster than health-care costs, which has forced students to take on ever-increasing levels of debt to pay for their education. I also documented how most of those increases have gone to the support of ever-expanding university bureaucracies and to the salaries of upper-level administrators.]]></description>
<dc:subject>academic-culture disruption-culture corporatism labor worklife life-o'-the-mind</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:93a8f86f1d95/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://academeblog.org/2016/09/09/the-ugly-administration-of-higher-education/">
    <title>The Ugly Administration of Higher Education | ACADEME BLOG</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-15T12:43:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://academeblog.org/2016/09/09/the-ugly-administration-of-higher-education/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Jokes aside—adjuncts, graduate assistants, and all contingent and marginalized campus workers work hard, too. Those who believe they are exempt from or unaffected by the low-road administration of higher ed ought to question their educational agency, ethos, and value to the students, not to the system. Get this right: students are not customers and this is their educational opportunity and experience. Education is a public good not a value proposition or a gravy train. While some colleges and ethical administrators get this, many more opt not to.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>academic-culture adjunct disintermediation-in-action public-policy labor worklife corporatism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:78d331d62ef6/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-serf-on-googles-farm">
    <title>A Serf on Google’s Farm – Talking Points Memo</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-14T11:52:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-serf-on-googles-farm</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[But here’s where the rubber really meets the road. The publishers use DoubleClick. The big advertisers use DoubleClick. The big global advertising holding companies use Doubleclick. Everybody at every point in the industry is wired into DoubleClick. Here’s how they all play together. The adserving (Doubleclick) is like the road. (Adexchange) is the biggest car on the road. But only AdExchange gets full visibility into what’s available. (There’s lot of details here and argument about just what Google does and doesn’t know. But trust me on this. They keep the key information to themselves. This isn’t a suspicion. It’s the model.) So Google owns the road and gets first look at what’s on the road. Not only does Google own the road and makes the rules for the road, it has special privileges on the road. One of the ways it has special privileges is that it has all the data it gets from search, Google Analytics and Gmail. It also gets to make the first bid on every bit of inventory. Of course that’s critical. First dibs with more information than anyone else has access to. (Some exceptions to this. But that’s the big picture.) It’s good to be the king. It’s good to be a Google.

There’s more I’ll get to in a moment but the interplay between DoubleClick and Adexchange is so vastly important to the entirety of the web, digital publishing and the entire ad industry that it is almost impossible to overstate. Again. They own the road. They make the rules for the road. They get special privileges on the road with every new iteration of rules.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>advertising monopoly Google journalism corporatism influence</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:2ee835f6d78c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2989189/the_hidden_environmental_impacts_of_platform_capitalism.html">
    <title>The hidden environmental impacts of ‘platform capitalism’ - The Ecologist</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-27T12:33:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2989189/the_hidden_environmental_impacts_of_platform_capitalism.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In comparison, the inner workings of these companies are becoming increasingly harder to comprehend, something that Frank Pasquale has identified with his idea of The Black Box Society. 
 
We may be able to observe the huge levels of profits, but it is harder to understand what is happening within the proprietary systems of these companies.
 
This is no accident. A key part of this new business model is obscuring how the company actually works. For example, companies like Uber or Deliveroo claim not to employ any drivers, instead using a contractual trick to organise a precarious pool of gig workers who are technically self-employed.
 
These methods shift the costs and risks onto workers, freeing the company from regulations like the minimum wage, holiday and sick pay, and pensions. 
 
The platform orientation of these companies is about dodging regulations to maximise profits. If these companies are not prepared to pay workers properly, it does not bode well for meeting other regulations and responsibilities more broadly.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>platform-capitalism economics corporatism end-times cultural-assumptions political-economy public-policy crowdsourcing-it-aint</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:2e0204874a25/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:corporatism"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-assumptions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:political-economy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:public-policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:crowdsourcing-it-aint"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://hbr.org/2017/08/how-the-imagined-rationality-of-engineering-is-hurting-diversity-and-engineering">
    <title>How the Imagined “Rationality” of Engineering Is Hurting Diversity — and Engineering</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-10T21:52:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://hbr.org/2017/08/how-the-imagined-rationality-of-engineering-is-hurting-diversity-and-engineering</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Just how common are the views on gender espoused in the memo that former Google engineer James Damore was recently fired for distributing on an internal company message board? The flap has women and men in tech — and elsewhere — wondering what their colleagues really think about diversity. Research we’ve conducted shows that while most people don’t share Damore’s views, male engineers are more likely to.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>corporatism rationality bad-actors objectivism startup-culture-must-die</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:dd0f8c9ef67f/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.guernicamag.com/the-teaching-class/">
    <title>The Teaching Class – Guernica</title>
    <dc:date>2017-06-21T03:09:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.guernicamag.com/the-teaching-class/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When Andrew Scott, a composition instructor in Indianapolis, explained adjuncting to some of his students, he wound up being called into his supervisor’s office for a scolding. A group of his students at the private university where he was adjuncting (he also had a full-time position at Ball State) had arrived early for class, and were talking in the hallway. When one student mentioned a history teacher who seemed eager to get the students to like her, and whose class didn’t have a lot of work, Scott explained how her work situation was involved: “I knew the instructor was an adjunct, and that she taught at several places to cobble together a living. I told the students that she was an adjunct, and that the class was easy because she was afraid of losing her job.” Adjuncts are often evaluated solely based on student evaluations. As Rebecca Schuman put it in her Slate article “Confessions of a Grade Inflator,” “popularity is the only thing keeping them employed.”

Scott had this conversation with his students outside of class, because the students had brought it up, and because he considered it “a teachable moment.” But it still got him into trouble, probably because of this comparison: “I said that the university pays the janitor who scrapes the gum off their desks more per year than me and most of the people who teach their first-year classes. My private university students couldn’t believe that, but it was true. Even a low estimate shows how that’s true. Ten bucks per hour for forty hours a week equals an annual salary of $20,800.” One year Scott taught seven courses at that college, and made under $15,000 for that work.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>contingent-labor academic-culture worklife class corporatism to-write-about</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:4601cd2cd7a8/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://autosociologist.wordpress.com/2016/01/03/on-leaving-precarious-adjuncting/">
    <title>On leaving precarious adjuncting – autosociologist</title>
    <dc:date>2017-06-11T23:26:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://autosociologist.wordpress.com/2016/01/03/on-leaving-precarious-adjuncting/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I’m not sure what my role is, going forward. I don’t think there’s a happy ending, though my fingers are crossed that there’s a new chapter ahead.  I mean, first things first I just need to find a way not to become homeless.  I will scramble for a job first and foremost.  I just pray that I get to work somewhere where I get to impact the common good – someplace where I will never EVER forget the humans that hold me up, and I them.  But that’s the thing: as a sociologist I know that not ONE of those humans is really to be blamed. The Dean, the Chair, me….  We’re all just players in the bureaucracy of academia, and society more broadly.  So I can’t escape this dehumanization, and I’ll either work or be fired, and the Dean and the Chair, they chose to work, and me, one day I’ll choose to work, and someone will be fired at my expense…  We’re powerless to the neoliberal institution and our own survival/greed. You are too, so let’s all look away.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>academic-culture Precariat corporatism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:c3676dd687ae/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.wired.com/2017/06/silicon-valley-still-doesnt-care-work-life-balance/?mbid=social_twitter">
    <title>Silicon Valley Still Doesn't Care About Work-Life Balance | WIRED</title>
    <dc:date>2017-06-04T10:53:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.wired.com/2017/06/silicon-valley-still-doesnt-care-work-life-balance/?mbid=social_twitter</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Silicon Valley’s emphasis on work-life balance may be evolving, but its priesthood still values a very particular kind of grit. This ideological tension came to blows earlier this week in a marathon Twitter fight that started on Memorial Day, with anecdotal evidence and closing arguments still trickling in days later.

The dialogue began innocently enough when Blake Robbins, a tech investor who has worked or interned for companies like Google, Nest, and SpaceX, deployed a flurry of tweets about his philosophy on work-life balance. “When I first got into tech. I thought it was ‘cool’ to work on the weekends or holidays. I quickly realized that’s a recipe for disaster,” Robbins wrote. “Not hanging with friends and family because you’re working isn’t ‘cool.’ Burning out isn’t ‘cool.’ I promise you…your competition isn’t beating you because they are working more hours than you. It’s because they are working smarter.”

But the mood quickly turned. “Totally false,” venture capitalist Keith Rabois tweeted back at Robbins. “Read a bio of Elon [Musk]. Or about Amazon. Or about the first 4 years of FB. Or PayPal. Or Bill Bellichick [sic]. It is pure arrogance to believe you can outsmart other talented people.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife assholes-in-charge corporatism propserity-gospel social-psychology entrepreneurship-as-pathology</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:e18c4ccef8fc/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://hackeducation.com/2017/05/24/new-normal">
    <title>Education Technology as 'The New Normal'</title>
    <dc:date>2017-05-25T11:47:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://hackeducation.com/2017/05/24/new-normal</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This “new normal” does not simply argue that governmental regulations impede innovation. It posits government itself as an obstacle to change. It embraces libertarianism; it embraces “free markets.” It embraces a neoliberalism that calls for shrinking budgets for public services, including education – a shifting of dollars to private industry.
Education needs to change, we have long been told. It is outmoded. Inefficient. And this “new normal” – in an economic sense much more than a pedagogical one – has meant schools have been tasked to “do more with less” and specifically to do more with new technologies which promise greater efficiency, carrying with them the values of business and markets rather than the values of democracy or democratic education.
These new technologies, oriented towards consumers and consumption, privilege an ideology of individualism. In education technology, as in advertising, this is labeled “personalization.” The flaw of traditional education systems, we are told, is that they focus too much on the group, the class, the collective. So we see education being reframed as a technologically-enhanced series of choices – consumer choices. Technologies monitor and extract data in order to maximize “engagement” and entertainment.
I fear that new normal, what it might really mean for teaching, for learning, for scholarship.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>neoliberalism individualism pedagogy cultural-norms corporatism the-bad-future essay to-write</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:157f58d687ba/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://hackeducation.com/2017/04/14/omidyar">
    <title>The Omidyar Network and the (Neoliberal) Future of Education</title>
    <dc:date>2017-05-14T11:12:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://hackeducation.com/2017/04/14/omidyar</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So, while in the US we see neoliberalism pushing to dismantle public institutions and public funding for public institutions, in the Global South, these very forces are there touting the “power of markets” to make sure public institutions can never emerge or thrive in the first place. Investors like the Omidyar Network are poised to extract value from the very people they promise their technologies and businesses are there to help.
Conveniently, the Omidyar Network’s investment portfolio also includes journalistic and research organizations that are too poised to promote and endorse the narratives that aggrandize these very technocratic, market-based solutions.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>neoliberalism education corporatism disintermediation-in-action not-a-good-idea</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:4d37a4985e56/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/bail-bonds/526542/">
    <title>Who Really Makes Money Off of Bail Bonds? - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2017-05-14T11:10:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/bail-bonds/526542/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A new report from the nonprofit Color of Change and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sheds further light on the country’s bail system. The report finds that around 70 percent of those currently in jail have yet to be convicted of a crime. Not unrelated: Between 1990 and 2009, the share of people arrested who were required to post money bail grew from 37 percent to 61 percent, according to the report.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>corporatism police politics racism legalism public-policy the-crises</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:d987773ecf5c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.publicbooks.org/the-problem-with-philanthropy/">
    <title>The Problem with Philanthropy | Public Books</title>
    <dc:date>2017-05-09T16:08:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.publicbooks.org/the-problem-with-philanthropy/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The “myth” Kohl-Arenas identifies is the belief that individuals and communities can change their material circumstances in the absence of any change to the systems and policies that govern those circumstances. In the US, our national narrative places the lion’s share of responsibility on individuals: responsibility for poverty on the poor, for mental illness on the mentally ill and their families, for incarceration on the incarcerated. As a wealthy, developed nation, we are a bewildering outlier in our refusal to take more communal responsibility for our brethren. When people do organize to care for one another, and in doing so discover that life struggles are linked to structural problems in need of policy solutions, they are often demoralized to find that funders shy away from any work that would promote policy change.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>philanthropy public-policy cultural-engineering cultural-assumptions corporatism revolution</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:dbca80e9b62c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://academicirregularities.wordpress.com/2017/05/07/dragged-from-the-plane-in-academia-time-for-a-culture-hack/amp/">
    <title>Dragged from the plane in academia…time for a culture hack – Academic Irregularities</title>
    <dc:date>2017-05-08T12:23:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://academicirregularities.wordpress.com/2017/05/07/dragged-from-the-plane-in-academia-time-for-a-culture-hack/amp/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In another blog, Jana Bacevic wonders why, when there are so many critiques of the neoliberal, managerial university, is there so little resistance? I think there may not be so much mystery in this. All academics have been made to feel precarious and unworthy and it has led to a focus on meeting the metrics and staying ahead of the escalating demands of the university’s performance expectations. Raising a voice or organising with colleagues to change these absurd conditions seems too much like a risk when there is a mortgage to pay and children to feed. Managers know this, which is why they build structures to feed on academic insecurities – ‘imposter syndrome’- and incorporate employees into an anxiety machine (Hall and Bowles, 2016). So it is as much as academics dare, to reflect and write about their experiences in a rather dispassionate analytic way. Even this leads to a Catch 22 situation whereby academics find themselves required to publish, but publish to satisfy an urge to rebel by tilting at the REF windmill with their (published and peer-reviewed) critique.

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<dc:subject>academic-culture precariat corporatism cultural-norms</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a5a75b199b7e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://newrepublic.com/article/141663/united-states-work">
    <title>The United States of Work | New Republic</title>
    <dc:date>2017-05-08T09:56:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://newrepublic.com/article/141663/united-states-work</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Anderson’s most provocative argument is that large companies, the institutions that employ most workers, amount to a de facto form of government, exerting massive and intrusive power in our daily lives. Unlike the state, these private governments are able to wield power with little oversight, because the executives and boards of directors that rule them are accountable to no one but themselves. Although they exercise their power to varying degrees and through both direct and “soft” means, employers can dictate how we dress and style our hair, when we eat, when (and if) we may use the toilet, with whom we may partner and under what arrangements. Employers may subject our bodies to drug tests; monitor our speech both on and off the job; require us to answer questionnaires about our exercise habits, off-hours alcohol consumption, and childbearing intentions; and rifle through our belongings. If the state held such sweeping powers, Anderson argues, we would probably not consider ourselves free men and women.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>corporatism via:bkerr labor politics political-economy cultural-assumptions worklife not-encouraging</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:0fb9e67d0d35/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://itself.blog/2017/02/27/a-defense-of-the-classroom/">
    <title>A defense of the classroom – An und für sich</title>
    <dc:date>2017-03-31T12:44:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://itself.blog/2017/02/27/a-defense-of-the-classroom/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The real problem is forcing students to “work their way through college,” when college is already hard work in and of itself. The world can make do with fewer baristas and waiters while the next generation takes full advantage of the education that we are constantly told is absolutely crucial to personal and national success. It seems to me that a left-wing publication should probably find a way to make that point clearly and directly instead of obscuring the point with a frankly click-baity “contrarian” framing.

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<dc:subject>academia corporatism economics public-policy philosophy-thunderdome</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:e948d0fc4b6d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://academicirregularities.wordpress.com/2015/11/26/raising-the-bar-the-metric-tide-that-sinks-all-boats/">
    <title>Raising the Bar: The Metric Tide That Sinks All Boats | Academic Irregularities</title>
    <dc:date>2017-03-31T11:48:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://academicirregularities.wordpress.com/2015/11/26/raising-the-bar-the-metric-tide-that-sinks-all-boats/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There has been a hollowing out of the sense of purpose of universities as power is skewed towards the managerial function. Despite vice-chancellors’ assurances that There is No Alternative, it doesn’t have to be like this, and it is our job to take every opportunity to make this clear. Good work cannot be sustained under these conditions of pressure and surveillance. Academics are not servo systems whose online functioning can be monitored and tweaked in response to new demands. Consider this reality; academics with all their strengths and imperfections are the people who attract students. I gift several Saturdays a year to my institution because, it seems, I am able to persuade students to study there. Nobody ever signed up because of the award-winning Human Resources team, or was swayed by the robustness of the Improving Performance Procedure.

So let’s indeed raise the bar. Let’s raise the bar for decency, humanity, respect and trust. Let’s realise that academic staff do not have either the resources or the capacity to keep expanding their workloads and output every year, and please let’s keep in mind the human consequences of systems that push people above, over and beyond. And let’s return to that meaning of ‘we’ and allow ourselves to feel that it includes everyone who works in a university and not allow it to pertain exclusively to management. I hope that, perhaps, one day, vice-chancellors and their senior management teams will wake up and remember they work for universities; they are not the university.

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<dc:subject>academic-culture corporatism metrics pedagogy management</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:6df7c130360c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:metrics"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.palgrave-journals.com/articles/palcomms2016105">
    <title>“Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence : Palgrave Communications</title>
    <dc:date>2017-03-22T10:59:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.palgrave-journals.com/articles/palcomms2016105</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The rhetoric of “excellence” is pervasive across the academy. It is used to refer to research outputs as well as researchers, theory and education, individuals and organizations, from art history to zoology. But does “excellence” actually mean anything? Does this pervasive narrative of “excellence” do any good? Drawing on a range of sources we interrogate “excellence” as a concept and find that it has no intrinsic meaning in academia. Rather it functions as a linguistic interchange mechanism. To investigate whether this linguistic function is useful we examine how the rhetoric of excellence combines with narratives of scarcity and competition to show that the hyper-competition that arises from the performance of “excellence” is completely at odds with the qualities of good research. We trace the roots of issues in reproducibility, fraud, and homophily to this rhetoric. But we also show that this rhetoric is an internal, and not primarily an external, imposition. We conclude by proposing an alternative rhetoric based on soundness and capacity-building. In the final analysis, it turns out that that “excellence” is not excellent. Used in its current unqualified form it is a pernicious and dangerous rhetoric that undermines the very foundations of good research and scholarship. This article is published as part of a collection on the future of research assessment.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>academia academic-culture higher-ed what-gets-measured-gets-fudged benchmarking corporatism</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:fd795e96e993/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.04722">
    <title>[1604.04722] Where is the global corporate elite? A large-scale network study of local and nonlocal interlocking directorates</title>
    <dc:date>2017-02-12T15:23:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.04722</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Business elites reconfigure their locus of organization over time, from the city level, to the national level, and beyond. We ask what the current level of elite organization is and propose a novel theoretical and empirical approach to answer this question. Building on the universal distinction between local and nonlocal ties we use network analysis and community detection to dissect the global network of interlocking directorates among over five million firms. We find that elite orientation is indeed changing from the national to the transnational plane, but we register a considerable heterogeneity across different regions in the world. In some regions the business communities are organized along national borders, whereas in other areas the locus of organization is at the city level or international level. London dominates the global corporate elite network. Our findings underscore that the study of corporate elites requires an approach that is sensitive to levels of organization that go beyond the confines of nation states.
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<dc:subject>social-networks rather-interesting corporatism globalism looking-to-see to-write-about</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a52348d87878/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/view/hau4.3.007">
    <title>Anthropology and the rise of the professional-managerial class | Graeber | HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-15T12:47:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/view/hau4.3.007</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Many of the internal changes within anthropology as a discipline—particularly the "postmodern turn" of the 1980s—can only be understood in the context of broader changes in the class composition of the societies in which university departments exist, and, in particular, the role of the university in the reproduction of a professional-managerial class that has come to displace any working-class elements in what pass for mainstream "left" political parties. Reflexivity, and what I call "vulgar Foucauldianism," while dressed up as activism, seem instead to represent above all the consciousness of this class. In its place, the essay proposes a politics combining support for social movements and a prefigurative politics in the academic sphere.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:ronins academic-culture neoliberalism corporatism universities technocracy life-o'-the-mind to-write-about</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:1de08de7485e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://evonomics.com/why-capitalism-creates-pointless-jobs-david-graeber/">
    <title>Why Capitalism Creates Pointless Jobs - Evonomics</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-23T13:02:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://evonomics.com/why-capitalism-creates-pointless-jobs-david-graeber/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is a profound psychological violence here. How can one even begin to speak of dignity in labour when one secretly feels one’s job should not exist? How can it not create a sense of deep rage and resentment. Yet it is the peculiar genius of our society that its rulers have figured out a way, as in the case of the fish-fryers, to ensure that rage is directed precisely against those who actually do get to do meaningful work. For instance: in our society, there seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.  Again, an objective measure is hard to find, but one easy way to get a sense is to ask: what would happen were this entire class of people to simply disappear? Say what you like about nurses, garbage collectors, or mechanics, it’s obvious that were they to vanish in a puff of smoke, the results would be immediate and catastrophic. A world without teachers or dock-workers would soon be in trouble, and even one without science fiction writers or ska musicians would clearly be a lesser place. It’s not entirely clear how humanity would suffer were all private equity CEOs, lobbyists, PR researchers, actuaries, telemarketers, bailiffs or legal consultants to similarly vanish. (Many suspect it might markedly improve.) Yet apart from a handful of well-touted exceptions (doctors), the rule holds surprisingly well.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>Graeberism worklife corporatism capitalism economics political-economy to-write-about</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b2887d28d0e0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2016/10/05/uber-menschen/">
    <title>Uber Menschen — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2016-10-16T11:49:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2016/10/05/uber-menschen/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[To belabor something that I hope is obvious to most readers but may not be obvious to all – the point is not that surge pricing is necessarily evil. It is that Econ 101 does not pre-empt the politics – people with different perspectives, interests and values may reasonably support or oppose surge pricing, depending. We do not know what the right answer is, and the best way we have discovered to even arrive at a rough approximation of the best answer that we can live with is to have people with different perspectives argue it out.

Brennan’s ideal epistocracy would strain a lot of those diverse perspectives out (he admits that e.g. African Americans in the US would likely be under-represented). His tweet furthermore suggests that, to take a few examples, people like Astra Taylor, the late E.P. Thompson, James Scott and Tom Slee (who, in fairness, has been denounced as an economic dunce by a prominent libertarian economist) should be barred from voting. I hope that it’s not too offensive to say that I would expect the contribution of any of these people to democratic debate to likely be more valuable than that of Jason Brennan.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>libertarianism ethics among-the-Uberii economics corporatism le-sigh</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b64dbf97998d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/@girlziplocked/on-the-antiscientific-fetishization-of-tech-founders-a746fd34fdce#.xtcnc3j5x">
    <title>On the Antiscientific Fetishization of Tech Founders — Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2016-08-19T08:32:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/@girlziplocked/on-the-antiscientific-fetishization-of-tech-founders-a746fd34fdce#.xtcnc3j5x</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Thus, much of Big Innovation is in direct conflict with the principles of scientific innovation because it stymies and suppresses political inquiry. It does not want you to ask hard questions. It doesn’t want you to politicize the Internet. It does not want you fighting with Founder A about how your social world should be organized.]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:deusx corporatism cultural-norms innovation entrepreneurship-as-pathology</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a6a6b3c6ebae/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-norms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:innovation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:entrepreneurship-as-pathology"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.08197">
    <title>[1605.08197] Centrality in the Global Network of Corporate Control</title>
    <dc:date>2016-07-24T11:49:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.08197</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Corporations across the world are highly interconnected in a large global network of corporate control. This paper investigates the global board interlock network, covering 400,000 firms linked through 1,700,000 edges representing shared directors between these firms. The main focus is on the concept of centrality, which is used to investigate the embeddedness of firms from a particular country within the global network. The study results in three contributions. First, to the best of our knowledge for the first time we can investigate the topology as well as the concept of centrality in corporate networks at a global scale, allowing for the largest cross-country comparison ever done in interlocking directorates literature. We demonstrate, amongst other things, extremely similar network topologies, yet large differences between countries when it comes to the relation between economic prominence indicators and firm centrality. Second, we introduce two new metrics that are specifically suitable for comparing the centrality ranking of a partition to that of the full network. Using the notion of centrality persistence we propose to measure the persistence of a partition's centrality ranking in the full network. In the board interlock network, it allows us to assess the extent to which the footprint of a national network is still present within the global network. Next, the measure of centrality ranking dominance tells us whether a partition (country) is more dominant at the top or the bottom of the centrality ranking of the full (global) network. Finally, comparing these two new measures of persistence and dominance between different countries allows us to classify these countries based the their embeddedness, measured using the relation between the centrality of a country's firms on the national and the global scale of the board interlock network.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>social-networks corporatism sociology rather-interesting business-culture oligarchy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:3817e71214cb/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:sociology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:rather-interesting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:business-culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:oligarchy"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://hackeducation.com/2016/05/07/identity-power-algorithms">
    <title>Identity, Power, and Education's Algorithms</title>
    <dc:date>2016-05-11T12:04:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://hackeducation.com/2016/05/07/identity-power-algorithms</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As I’ve argued previously, some ed-tech companies contend (in response to privacy concerns, to be clear) that their learning algorithms work without knowing who students are. Knewton’s CEO, for example, has said that “We can help students understand their learning history without knowing their identity.” But what does it mean to do so? What does it mean when ed-tech companies talk about an “identity-less-ness” learning? What does it mean to build “learning sciences” and “learning technologies” on top of this sort of epistemology? What does “personalization” possibly mean if there’s no “personally identifiable information” involved? What happens to bodies and identities – particularly bodies and identities of marginalized people – when they’re submitted to a new algorithmic regime that claims to be identity-less, that privileges identity-less-ness? And of course, what are the ideologies underneath these purportedly identity-less algorithms? (We might be able to answer that question, if partially, even when the algorithms are black-boxed.) These are some of the most important questions we must ask about identity, power, and education technologies.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>education public-policy algorithms docile-bodies philosophy corporatism rather-interesting criticism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:2aab3c4d6406/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:public-policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:algorithms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:docile-bodies"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:philosophy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:corporatism"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.cringely.com/2015/06/24/the-u-s-computer-industry-is-dying-and-ill-tell-you-exactly-who-is-killing-it-and-why/">
    <title>I, Cringely The U.S. computer industry is dying and I’ll tell you exactly who is killing it and why - I, Cringely</title>
    <dc:date>2015-06-27T11:53:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cringely.com/2015/06/24/the-u-s-computer-industry-is-dying-and-ill-tell-you-exactly-who-is-killing-it-and-why/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Now look at the American IT industry in a similar light. American companies have been pretending to offer a superior product for a superior price while simultaneously cutting costs and cheating customers. Do you think IBM respects its customers? They don’t. But what if they did? What if IBM — or any other U.S. IT services company for that matter — actually offered the kind of customer service they pretend they do? What if they solved customer problems instantly? What if they anticipated customer problems and solved them before those problems even appeared? You think that can’t be done? It can be done. And the company that can do it will be able to charge whatever they like and customers will gladly pay it.

True mastery, that’s what we’ve lost. No, we haven’t lost it: we threw it away.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>corporatism business-culture cultural-assumptions financial-crisis bigger-than-just-that</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:819ababf6bca/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:financial-crisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:bigger-than-just-that"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2015/04/i-am-anti-business.html">
    <title>Seth's Blog: I am 'anti-business', you might be too</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-19T11:38:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2015/04/i-am-anti-business.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If anti-business means supporting a structure that builds a foundation where more people can flourish over time, then sign me up.

A more interesting conversation, given how thoroughly intertwined business and social issues are, is whether someone is short-term or long-term. Not all long-term ideas are good ones, not all of them work, but it makes no sense to confuse them with the label of anti-business.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>business-culture conservatism corporatism pol</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:6bb51108b736/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/12/what-us-intelligence-predicted-the-world-would-look-like-in-2015/384071/">
    <title>What U.S. Intelligence Predicted the World Would Look Like in 2015 - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2015-01-03T14:04:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/12/what-us-intelligence-predicted-the-world-would-look-like-in-2015/384071/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><dc:subject>politics political-economy futurism grim-meathooks-and-the-like corporatism rather-interesting</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b46c8787c6db/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:futurism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:grim-meathooks-and-the-like"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://stoweboyd.com/post/102017286822/unhappy-at-work-you-are-not-alone">
    <title>Stowe Boyd — Unhappy At Work? You Are Not Alone.</title>
    <dc:date>2014-11-08T14:02:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://stoweboyd.com/post/102017286822/unhappy-at-work-you-are-not-alone</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Look past the rhetoric and you will find signs of the neglect of transformational learning everywhere. In the workplace as well as in many business school courses, with their emphasis on tools that can be taught in a weekend and applied on Monday morning. The learning that we privilege is the safer, incremental kind. Learning that makes us better at what we do but hardly frees us up to revisit why we do it that way or what, say, we may want to do next.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>worklife postnormal corporatism Taylorism social-psychology disintermediation-in-action</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:d6b2b726a63c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.sussex.ac.uk/webteam/gateway/file.php?name=spru-response-final.pdf&amp;site=25">
    <title>Response to the Call for Evidence &amp;c &amp;c [PDF]</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-09T15:00:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.sussex.ac.uk/webteam/gateway/file.php?name=spru-response-final.pdf&amp;site=25</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><dc:subject>metrics research horse-races academic-culture citation corporatism so-it-begins disruption-in-action</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:f0cd77709b64/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2013/12/cyberlibertarians-digital-deletion-of-the-left/">
    <title>Cyberlibertarians’ Digital Deletion of the Left | Jacobin</title>
    <dc:date>2014-05-03T21:29:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.jacobinmag.com/2013/12/cyberlibertarians-digital-deletion-of-the-left/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Cyberlibertarians across the political spectrum focus a great deal on the promotion of tools, objects, software, and policies whose chief benefit is their ability to escape regulation and even law enforcement by the state (including surveillance-avoidant technologies and applications such as Tor, end-to-end encryption, PGP and Cryptocat). They routinely portray government as the enemy of democracy rather than as its potential realization. Generally, they refuse to construe corporate power on the same order as governmental power; in close alignment with libertarianism, they implicitly suggest companies like Google and Facebook should be entirely unconstrained by governmental oversight.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics libertarianism corporatism alas-diversity liberal-democracy-and-government</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:cea54b4c3e0e/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:corporatism"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:liberal-democracy-and-government"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://mashable.com/2014/04/26/big-data-pregnancy/">
    <title>How One Woman Hid Her Pregnancy From Big Data</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-27T12:13:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mashable.com/2014/04/26/big-data-pregnancy/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Those kinds of activities, when you take them in the aggregate ... are exactly the kinds of things that tag you as likely engaging in criminal activity, as opposed to just having a baby," she said.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>privacy big-data marketing what-social-contract corporatism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:5b1117f6d444/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:marketing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:what-social-contract"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/01/wikileaks-trans-pacific-partnership-environment-chapter-toothless-public-relations-exercise.html">
    <title>Wikileaks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Environment Chapter: &quot;Toothless Public Relations Exercise&quot; | naked capitalism</title>
    <dc:date>2014-01-18T13:47:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/01/wikileaks-trans-pacific-partnership-environment-chapter-toothless-public-relations-exercise.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Now it isn’t hard to surmise what is going on here. You have an environment chapter with no effective enforcement mechanisms. You have an investment chapter that allows foreign investors to sue governments over lost prospective prospective profits in secret arbitration panels and win large judgments. Gee, what do you think matters, the headfake environment chapter or the chapters that allow investors to sue because protecting the environment or citizens’ health costs them money or to patent even more biological products and extract rents?

]]></description>
<dc:subject>public-policy TPP le-sigh politics corporatism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:521ec75f85b9/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/08/david-dayen-regulatory-apparatus-to-provide-full-employment-for-chroniclers-of-future-bailouts-as-useless-mortgage-origination-rules-introduced.html">
    <title>David Dayen: Regulatory Apparatus To Provide Full Employment For Chroniclers of Future Bailouts, as Useless Mortgage Origination Rules Introduced « naked capitalism</title>
    <dc:date>2013-08-31T10:31:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/08/david-dayen-regulatory-apparatus-to-provide-full-employment-for-chroniclers-of-future-bailouts-as-useless-mortgage-origination-rules-introduced.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As for regulation inhibiting private capital, it’s really quite the opposite. The wild west show that is private label securitization has kept private investors away from the market for the last five years. Further deregulation will only cement that wariness.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>financial-crisis corporatism bankers-should-start-avoiding-lampposts-right-about-now public-policy regulation</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:89c0c93703f0/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://pydanny.com/we-are-not-using-paypal.html">
    <title>We are not using PayPal</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-03T21:59:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://pydanny.com/we-are-not-using-paypal.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[PayPal's demise won't happen this year, or the next, but every time they damage their customer base and the developer community it's another nail in the coffin. I submit that unless PayPal changes its ways, within 5 years PayPal will be a shadow of its former self as the army of growing competitors such as Stripe, Balanced Payments, wepay, and Payoneer expands their availability and options around the world.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>PayPal open-source corporatism fraud (un)reliability</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:61e4d03fa5fd/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:corporatism"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/money-begets-money/">
    <title>“Biological structures yielding cash flows” | The Incidental Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-03T21:11:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/money-begets-money/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For what amounts to a talking point, patients are mortgaging their houses and their future. For shame! Even if some of these tests and procedures are warranted in some instances, it’s a very safe bet that they’re not in many, many others. In those cases, the right price is $0. That hospitals charge for application of procedures when they are at best useless and at worst harmful — and in all cases draining the patient or society of resources — brings to mind Uwe Reinhardt’s characterization of patients as “biological structures yielding cash flows.” (PDF) 

]]></description>
<dc:subject>healthcare financial-crisis public-policy pedagogy corporatism economics blood-in-the-streets-one-way-or-the-other</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:40737c492073/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://jeffreifman.com/2013/02/26/why-you-should-care-about-seattles-phonebook-debacle/">
    <title>Why You Should Care About Seattle’s Phonebook Debacle</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-03T13:50:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://jeffreifman.com/2013/02/26/why-you-should-care-about-seattles-phonebook-debacle/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This ruling represents a lot of what’s broken with America and its legal system:

We allow corporations (foreign and domestic) to intimidate, limit and overturn the lawmaking capacities of our local elected bodies, even when we’re trying to preserve our quality of life

We allow ongoing environmental harms regardless of public nuisance or value and allow corporations to externalize the resulting costs to taxpayers.

We allow corporations to parlay human rights victories from the Civil War-era to bend communities to their will.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>corporatism lawyers activism public-policy woops</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:e3259d15cca8/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:public-policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:woops"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-20120829?page=3">
    <title>Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital | Politics News | Rolling Stone</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-31T12:27:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-20120829?page=3</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Take a typical Bain transaction involving an Indiana-based company called American Pad and Paper. Bain bought Ampad in 1992 for just $5 million, financing the rest of the deal with borrowed cash. Within three years, Ampad was paying $60 million in annual debt payments, plus an additional $7 million in management fees. A year later, Bain led Ampad to go public, cashed out about $50 million in stock for itself and its investors, charged the firm $2 million for arranging the IPO and pocketed another $5 million in "management" fees. Ampad wound up going bankrupt, and hundreds of workers lost their jobs, but Bain and Romney weren't crying: They'd made more than $100 million on a $5 million investment.

To recap: Romney, who has compared the devilish federal debt to a "nightmare" home mortgage that is "adjustable, no-money down and assigned to our children," took over Ampad with essentially no money down, saddled the firm with a nightmare debt and assigned the crushing interest payments not to Bain but to the children of Ampad's workers, who would be left holding the note long after Romney fled the scene. The mortgage analogy is so obvious, in fact, that even Romney himself has made it. He once described Bain's debt-fueled strategy as "using the equivalent of a mortgage to leverage up our investment."

]]></description>
<dc:subject>capitalism politics corporatism bankers-should-start-avoiding-lampposts-right-about-now</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:733bbf292363/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2012/08/corporations-are-not-people.html">
    <title>Seth's Blog: Corporations are not people</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-17T22:02:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2012/08/corporations-are-not-people.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Like many people, I'm disgusted by their strategy, but my point here is this: if someone in your neighborhood used this approach, treating others this way, if a human with a face and a house and a reputation did it, they'd have to move away in shame. If a local businessperson did this, no one in town would ever do business there again.

Corporations (even though it's possible that individuals working there might mean well) play a different game all too often. They bet on short memories and the healing power of marketing dollars, commercials and discounts. Employees are pushed to focus on bureaucratic policies and quarterly numbers, not a realization that individuals, not corporations, are responsible for what they do.

I hope all smart marketers realize just how dumb Progressive's marketing has been. But what I really hope is that all smart humans will realize how misguided Progressive's systems and lack of understanding are. And of course, it's not just this one corporation, it's the mindset.

Corporations don't have to act like this. It's people who can make them stop. Corporations aren't people, people are people."]]></description>
<dc:subject>corporatism marketing social-capital fix</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:4151406131ed/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:fix"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://falkvinge.net/2012/06/29/most-blatant-pro-acta-campaign-so-far-is-a-copyright-monopoly-violation/">
    <title>Most Blatant Pro-ACTA Campaign So Far Is A Copyright Monopoly Violation - Falkvinge on Infopolicy</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-29T12:39:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://falkvinge.net/2012/06/29/most-blatant-pro-acta-campaign-so-far-is-a-copyright-monopoly-violation/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This episode shows clearer than ever that the copyright and patent monopolies are not intended to be protective of innovation or protective of the economy. They’re obviously too complex even for their strongest supporters and lobbyists to understand and adhere to. Rather, they are intended as legal clubs to be used by the now-rich incumbents against resource-strapped upstarts. The copyright and patent monopolies are only protective of the past, protective against the present and future of innovation, creativity, and economy."]]></description>
<dc:subject>copyright intellectual-property corporatism public-policy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:edc6c0f82bb0/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:public-policy"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2VHf5vpBy8">
    <title>F2C2012: Eben Moglen keynote - &quot;Innovation under Austerity&quot; - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-28T11:36:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2VHf5vpBy8</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Eben Moglen keynote - "Innovation under Austerity" at F2C:Freedom to Connect 2012, Washington DC on May 22 2012. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics open-access innovation corporatism stirring-speeches watch-the-comments</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:6c06a60e6745/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:open-access"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:innovation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:corporatism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:stirring-speeches"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://thebaffler.com/notebook/2012/04/omniscient_gentlemen_of_the_atlantic">
    <title>Omniscient Gentlemen of The Atlantic | | Notebook | The Baffler</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-20T15:31:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thebaffler.com/notebook/2012/04/omniscient_gentlemen_of_the_atlantic</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What mystified Grove was the assertion, voiced by the economist Alan Blinder and others, “that as long as ‘knowledge work’ stays in the U.S., it doesn’t matter what happens to factory jobs.” This was not only inhumane, Grove declared; it was idiotic."]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi corporatism publishing social-engineering journalism they-say-the-best-astroturf-has-no-color-at-all</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:de9d8a6cfb44/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:corporatism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:publishing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:social-engineering"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:journalism"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/how-can-herbert-spencers-1892-revisions-to-his-social-statics-help-us-understand-conservative-opposition-to-the-individual-mandate/">
    <title>How Can Herbert Spencer’s 1892 Revisions to his Social Statics Help Us Understand Conservative Opposition to the Individual Mandate? | Rortybomb</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-17T00:43:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/how-can-herbert-spencers-1892-revisions-to-his-social-statics-help-us-understand-conservative-opposition-to-the-individual-mandate/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["But I think it’s clear what his real objection was: universal suffrage has the potential to advance socialistic causes, interfering with his laissez-faire project. From his autobiography: “Another extension of the franchise since made…will inevitably be followed by a still more rapid growth of socialistic legislation.” When he realized women’s equality could potentially interfere with laissez-faire economics, it was time for women’s equality to get cut from his overall theory of a better world. He would rather mutilate his intellectual project instead of allowing his enemies to continue to build their governance project."]]></description>
<dc:subject>Herbert-Spencer laissez-faire corporatism capitalism politics conservatism via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:e61c1f7ebc5d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:corporatism"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/04/understanding-amazons-strategy.html">
    <title>What Amazon's ebook strategy means - Charlie's Diary</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-14T22:34:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/04/understanding-amazons-strategy.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If the major publishers switch to selling ebooks without DRM, then they can enable customers to buy books from a variety of outlets and move away from the walled garden of the Kindle store. They see DRM as a defense against piracy, but piracy is a much less immediate threat than a gigantic multinational with revenue of $48 Billion in 2011 (more than the entire global publishing industry) that has expressed its intention to "disrupt" them, and whose chief executive said recently "even well-meaning gatekeepers slow innovation" (where "innovation" is code-speak for "opportunities for me to turn a profit").

And so they will deep-six their existing commitment to DRM and use the terms of the DoJ-imposed settlement to wiggle out of the most-favoured-nation terms imposed by Amazon, in order to sell their wares as widely as possible.

If they don't, they're doomed. And all of us who like to read (or write) fiction get to live in the Amazon company town."]]></description>
<dc:subject>monopoly-and-monpsony-sittin-in-a-tree Amazon eBooks disintermediation-in-action corporatism redisintermediation</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:d08a220d5024/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:eBooks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:disintermediation-in-action"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:corporatism"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.berfrois.com/2012/04/maps-governments-cannot-ignore/">
    <title>‘The aim is to produce maps that governments cannot ignore’ | berfrois</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-06T11:35:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.berfrois.com/2012/04/maps-governments-cannot-ignore/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Consider events in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire. There, in the aftermath of a long civil war, the government is currently zoning its forests — which cover as much as 316 million acres, an area nearly the size of France, Germany and Spain combined — in preparation for their mass allocation to logging companies. Old European timber conglomerates want to reactivate their concessions, some dating back almost to the brutal days more than a century ago when the entire country was run by King Leopold of Belgium. Logging newcomers from Malaysia and China also want a slice of the action."]]></description>
<dc:subject>GIS mapping corporatism activism ontological-war</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:f5bd478626b5/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:mapping"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:corporatism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:ontological-war"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/27/when-privatisation-doesnt-work">
    <title>When privatisation doesn't work | George Irvin | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-28T12:03:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/27/when-privatisation-doesnt-work</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In short, arguments favouring private over public provision are not just theoretically flawed, but typically favour the few at the expense of the many. The pendulum has swung too far to the right: it's time to stand up for public provision."]]></description>
<dc:subject>public-policy healthcare politics privatization corporatism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:44601fd5d6bb/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:healthcare"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:privatization"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2012/03/27/the-last-enclosures/">
    <title>The Last Enclosures | Easily Distracted</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-28T11:58:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2012/03/27/the-last-enclosures/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I think it’s fairly simple. You know the classic “First they came for the X, then they came for the Y, and I did nothing, and then they came for me?” schtick? This is one of those stories. In fact, it’s the end of one of those stories. They already came for the doctors and the psychiatrists. They already came for the lawyers. They already came for the accountants and auditors. They already came for all the professions. Professors are the last to be broken on the wheel, the last to be put at their station in the new assembly lines of the 21st Century Service Economy."]]></description>
<dc:subject>academic-culture cultural-assumptions disintermediation-in-action universities social-norms corporatism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:999036e1ace2/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-assumptions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:disintermediation-in-action"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:universities"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com/2012/03/three-crowd.html">
    <title>The Epicurean Dealmaker: Three’s a Crowd</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-21T11:14:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com/2012/03/three-crowd.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The tension arises from the fact that it is often more profitable to rip a customer’s face off in the short term than to defer potentially larger profit opportunities with the same client in the long term. When bankers whose personal franchises, careers, and compensation depends on the former are evenly balanced with bankers whose interests are aligned with the latter, an investment bank perches profitably if precariously on the knife’s edge of sustainable profitability. Notwithstanding industry critics’ perception that all investment bankers are all looking for a quick and easy score, those of us who actually work in the relationship side of the business know that our best personal outcome depends on a sustained career success lasting over a decade or more. Unlike, perhaps, traders who transact daily with equally ruthless hedge fund counterparties on a no-regrets, no-grudges basis, bankers like me in corporate finance and M&A transact with the same limited universe of clients year-in and year-out. We simply cannot afford to screw them over, because they do hold a grudge."]]></description>
<dc:subject>cultural-dynamics financial-crisis bankers-should-start-avoiding-lampposts-right-about-now exploration-and-exploitation corporatism employment-as-self-definition</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:eb5e8ee46016/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newdeal20.org/2011/06/27/is-your-boss-really-in-business-to-create-jobs-49622/">
    <title>Is Your Boss Really in Business to Create Jobs? » New Deal 2.0</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-02T14:32:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newdeal20.org/2011/06/27/is-your-boss-really-in-business-to-create-jobs-49622/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["No, Mr. President, we’re not in this together with corporate America. Corporations are in it to maximize profits and boost CEO salaries, not help the U.S. economy or put people back to work.

With no “healthy increase in demand,” on the horizon and unemployment heading back up, the President has talked more about government-led solutions that would actually create jobs in America. Near the end of his address on Afghanistan, and in a full-throated pitch at a Democratic fundraiser in New York City the next evening, Obama called for investments in education, infrastructure, and clean energy at home.

Democratic leaders in Congress have also started to sharpen their focus on the failure of corporations to create jobs at home. Nancy Pelosi’s reaction to the Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s walking away from budget talks was, “”Yes, we do want to remove tax subsidies for big oil, we want to remove tax breaks for corporations that send jobs overseas… ”"]]></description>
<dc:subject>financial-crisis economics business-culture corporatism jobs unemployment figure-ground-error</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:f1dd34a289ec/</dc:identifier>
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